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is buffet the same as refreshments or something more substantial?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffet

It should mean something more substantial. Sometimes they are intended to serve as an entire meal.

Other times a buffet is just meant as an appetizer (at receptions before fancy sit-down dinners) or as a salty snack (spicy chicken wings, etc.) to make people thirsty so they'll buy more alcoholic drinks (at bars).

Obviously, it also depends how many people are going to be there and how much food is ordered. So I wouldn't necessarily expect a full and substantial meal. But it should be more substantial than "refreshments." Perhaps K_Rebbe will attend?

It's too bad that you live such a tremendous distance from Qveens, and are too aged to travel, but I imagine that there are similar learning opportunities in Brooklyn?

Yes. Does anyone know what happened to Shalhevet? I've seen no ads this year.

forgot to mention another lecture in Queens:


THIS Thursday Night, August 23rd, 2007
Special Lecture On Dating & Marriage
By Director of CHAZAQ Outreach
R’ Ilan Meirov
Join us and Find out the Secret to
Finding and Keeping your Soul mate!
Discover the
TRUE Meaning of Love!
Men and Women are Welcome * Admission is Free!
SUSHI @ 8:00 PM
Lecture Scheduled for 8:30 PM
Location: Beth Gavriel Community Center
66-35 108th Street Forest Hills NY 11375
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Does anyone actually go to these for the eats?

Have you ever been in shul on a Shabbos morning and noticed some people come in just in time for Adon Olam and the kiddush?

That's different. They don't have to stay for any learning.

I would go and hear Paysach Krohn even without free eats. I think I have even paid admission to hear him.... It's worth every penny and he is a gevaldeke mentch (I wonder if he still remembers me)...

again sushi? what kind of a cool place is that?

and, yeah, Pesach Krohn is a good speaker



i actually asked for your benefit, so that your mother would be happy to hear you had a normal supper there, not just whatever there was at a previous lecture

there definitely are.



i've seen posters about lectures in flatbush; i don't remember if they are from shalhevet, though.



that would be a total waste of time, imo.

Who said anything about sushi?

sushi is tonight, at the lecture about dating and marriage - post#5

Ironic, I recently went on a date and one of the few things we saw eye to eye on is that this whole Sushi trend is out of hand......

what sushi trend?

Well it is no coincidence that it is being used as a draw to get people to come to shiurim. And anyone today that doesn't have a sushi bar at a simcha is immediately placed on the black list......

so are any refreshments/buffet - used to draw people to come to shiurim. cause it's food and free.

i definitely see some sushi fad around, cause a few years ago i had no idea what it was, and even less so tasted it, but i don't think it's overdone. many people like it, it's considered fancy to have it at the simcha (i haven't been to any that have it, btw)

I would go off on a tirade about the gross materialism and superficiality that has infiltrated and is pervasive in the frum world today, but I really don't have koach and I doubt anyone wants to hear it.......

Do people like it because it tastes good, or because liking it is a sign of being "cultured"?

I don't know but on principle I refuse to pay double for food that isn't even cooked....

oh, please, it's just food. what if red caviar were to become very popular, you would you on the same tirade?



i wouldn't know. i surely hope the former, but i'm sure there are the latter cases, so they would be the perfect candidates for listening to KR's tirade.

for the record - i'm not even crazy in love with sushi. i'll eat it if i'm served (at the parties), but i ordered it only once in my life, and that was a few years ago when i tasted it fr the first time cause was curious to taste it (didn't like it that first time, btw)

No, a much worse tirade.....

my co-worker just brought some hm, maybe i also should buy some for shabbos...

i always liked black one much better <sigh>

Is that from whitefish? I don't know how many type of kosher caviar there are.

I know that the sturgeon caviar is considered treif.

ABOUT RABBI KROHN: Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn is one of the most dynamic and sought-after speakers in the Jewish world. He has delivered his inspirational lectures in cities across North America, Israel, Europe and South Africa. He is the author of the popular, best selling Maggid Series of books (five to date) published by Artscroll/Mesorah.
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see you there!!!!




who are you ??

Did K_Rebbe really say he was going? He said that he "would go," but that could mean, "I would go, if I didn't have a date with a beautiful girl on Sunday night," or, "I would go, if I weren't learning Torah with Melech at that time," etc.

But if you're really lucky, maybe you'll see me there. You could even introduce yourself it you wanted to.

i don't know what's sturgeon caviar is and from what fish the black one is, but i do know that only red (salmon) caviar is kosher (to my knowledge, that is). oh, well, good memories...

How can y'all not like sushi?
Yet again, I only like the sushi w/ veggies (or veggies + fruit) inside, so IDK if that's mamash sushi.

that's like liking tofu burgers and asking a vegetarian how can he not like real burgers

sorry to be this blunt with you, but what you like is not sushi, whatever they call that product

we all know k reb has nothing better to do

as for going it depends if dear slee would accompany me
but if i do see you i will make an effort to say hello

I am seriously considering it..... Even more so if we can make a mini-meet out of it.....


That was last week.... and not on Sunday... But who knows, she might actually call me back for a rematch......


I think he will have skipped town by then


Why would I derive enjoyment from merely "seeing you"??? Are you THAT h0tt???

Yeah, drive all the way to Queens to not say hello to you because I have no idea what you look like sounds like a very productive and worthwhile activity.....

Hey, well there is seaweed involved in the sushi I eat. Doesn't that count for something?

If it makes you feel any better, Wikipedia sides with you.

That seaweed is made from fried cabbage.

no silly, i meant nothing better then to hear the speech. i probably wont be there unless i find someone to tag along with.
And if you do come ill probably recognize you right awaybecause you'll most probably be the only one with long payot

You can't go by yourself?

No. Not to shiurim, or the bathroom.

I come in many shapes and disguises.... In fact I never look the same twice.....

not exactly, i mean I'm 100 % sure ill know at least 40% of whose going to be there since the lecture is being held in the beit knesset i attend weekly, its just that i want to make sure a close friend is coming and i don't want to walk home alone.



and ill be the undercover spy

OK- K-rebbe is coming, the peyos aren't.....
So look for the fat guy who is pretending not to have peyos that is snoring or trying not to fall asleep....

My cell is 917-971-4563 if anyone cares......

and not to the singles' events! apparently, it's a major issue - JP has letters about girls staying at those events in clusters, inseparable, for 3-4 weeks already.



you'll leave your peyos hanging on the tree outside the shul?

AND who will be eating everything BUT sushi.

whoever is going - enjoy the lecture and the mini-meet!

lecture was great; and i cant believe k reb just bluntly put his phone number like that.

BTW it was very easy to spot him

Was this a meet?

Naturally, no one introduced themselves to me. I see a trend...

I didn't see K_Rebbe's 7:20 post before I left, so I saw a big guy there with a full beard, sitting in the center section behind the central bima, but since he had no peyot, I didn't think it was him and didn't see any need to ask if he was K_Rebbe. And I didn't see Sle123, and didn't think Bombastic was coming (or feel a need to ask the hundreds of girls there if any of them was Bombastic) -- I would expect strange looks if I approached strangers and asked, "Are you K_Rebbe," or "Are you Bombastic." Wheras I think it wouldn't be that painful for people to spot me or to ask, "Are you Bezalel." But NOOOOO!

i thought i saw you...but you left quickly and i didnt have a chance to wave.
i told slee i thought i saw you and when we met k reb he said he didnt see you..
did you stay for the minyan ?
how did you like the speech?

I left Kew Gardens Hills around 7:25, on foot, and got there around 7:55. I enjoyed the buffet, then found a seat on the left side, toward the front, and stayed until after ma'ariv. [I was surprised that there were some women wandering around in the shul after the guys started ma'ariv. There was even one girl standing in the back, on the right side, davening. In an Ashkenazi shul someone probably would have stoned her, or built a mechitza around her.] I then hiked back to KGH.

The speech was great, as always. I was also very impressed that Rabbi Yehoshua, in his brief introduction, focused on the fact that some people need shidduchim, and that Rabbi Krohn also mentioned that. Is that a problem in the Bukharan community? In KGH, I feel that I'm completely forgotten: whichever shul I go into, everyone's married, including a lot of people who look like they're 12 years old. I wonder if Rabbi Yehoshua knows any older women; maybe I should drop him a note.